ikuta

Updated: May 28, 2025

On March 21, 1184, the Kamakura armies delivered their assault on this position; Noriyori with fifty-six thousand men against the east flank at Ikuta; Yoshitsune's lieutenants with twenty thousand men against the west at Suma. Little progress was made. Defence and attack were equally obstinate, and the advantage of position as well as of numbers was with the former.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era